Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 3-2-1993 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (1993). The George-Anne. 1318. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/1318 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. »-. K ALSO -meTw-CHo/ce, NO-Fl/K, P£R$aJ-OF- COCOR, srecwccep, '-* «• NON-pRojecvm Lady hoopsters murder Political correctness with zecessep r ^secnoN. 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Students owe approximately dents may have the idea that to create a pedestrian strip. are given warning tickets that Lewis Williams III, 19, of $130,000 in parking tickets ac- we're bluffing, but it's just that Although these changes will inform them that they are on the Baltimore, was dismissed from cording to the GSU department the system hadn't been working occur, Chambers said it is not boot list. Offenders must also enough to service everyone. Slippery Rock University last of parking and transportation. and it's working now, real well." pay an additional fee to have the 'We have 500 empty parking week and, separate from school Many students still have not paid The department has taken boot removed. spaces outside here everyday. We discipline, charged with crimi- for parking tickets and as a re- several measures to try to get sult their registration for spring 'We've been doing a lot of boot- have ample parking, it's just not nal mischief and ethnic intimi- students to pay for their parking ing," Chambers said. 'We don't where everyone would like it to dation. quarter is in jeopardy. violations. These include ad- like to do that, but it's kind of a be," Chambers said. School officials said Will- For the past four quarters, vertising in the George-Anne, last resort." Chambers is referring to the iams admitted writing the the system designed to place a having a parking hold printed on The department plans to ex- south end commuter parking lot words "head nigger" on his door hold on the registration of park- registration time cards, and the pand parking on campus to bet- and stated that commuter park- at Rhoads Hall and the word ing offenders had not been work- parking boot. The department One thing that has been effec- ter accommodate students. Two ing is the entire parking chal- "nigger" outside a room where ing. has also considered having par- tive is the parking boot. This hundred to three hundred park- lenge. According to Chambers, it two other black students lived According to Bob Chambers, tial listings of student's social director of parking and trans- immobilization device is placed ing spaces will be added to the only takes about 13 or 14 min- on Feb. 18. security numbers posted in the on the cars of people who have area of Chandler Road and Herty utes to walk to campus from the Williams at first said the portation: "A lot of things have Union. three or more unpaid parking Drive within a year or so. There parking lot. words were probably a been building up and this is go- Despite these efforts, students tickets. are also plans to build a perim- See Parking, page 9 drunken vandal's response to ing to be the first time its worked are not paying for their tickets. February's Black History Month. The dismissed student had Campus officials condemn recent hate-crime incident attended a class, 'The Afri- can-American Experience," taught by professor Michael Matambanadzo. GSU police still have no leads in the February 10th Stratford Hall vandalism case "I would have handled it differently," Matambanadzo By Doug Gross Editor according to Lt. Guy Sharp. specifically to hate-crime viola- the crime. Other campus officials felt a said. "He could have been 'We're not going to put up tions. GSU, he said, in the wake of more pro-active stance should be warned. I do not believe in Campus officials spoke out with this kind of thing," said "It's not against the law to a recent Supreme Court case in- taken by the school in dealing capital punishment. This is this week about a recent on-cam- Sharp, who said the perpetra- hate people," Baynes said. "It's volving a cross-burning in Min- with this and other situations in like a death sentence to a stu- pus act of anti-Semitic vandal- tors "probably [don't] realize the against the law to vandalize gov- neapolis, is currently reviewing which anti-minority sentiments dent." ism, condemning the action and severity of this crime." ernment property." the code and may implement are involved. _z: offering differing viewpoints on Savannah College of Art and Sharp said that in addition to The Eagle Eye, theofficial stu- regulations involving hate-crime 'The important part is to de- how the incident should be Design sues New York school facing possible charges of crimi- dent handbook which includes activities before next school year. velop sensitivity," said Bernard treated by the college and local SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A nal trespass, any suspects ap- the GSU student conduct code, 'The university is right now Solomon, a professor who, along law enforcement. $103 million lawsuit filed by prehended could be prosecuted specifically prohibits "destruc- reviewing the student conduct with his wife Paula, advises the GSU police have no leads or the Savannah College of Arts under federal hate-crime laws tion or attempted destruction of, code as it applies to this sort of Hillel Society, a campus group suspects in a Feb. 10 incident in and Design won't stop plans to because of the "biased nature" of or damage to the property of the thing and First Amendment for Jewish students. "[The which the Star of David, a sym- start a second art school in the vandalism. University." rights," he said. 'There will prob- Stratford Hall incident] may bol of the Jewish faith, and the this Georgia city, a New York According to EdBayens, GSU Bayens said any action taken ably be a statement in the code have been a minor affair. No one words "K.K.K." and "rules" were college president says. head of judicial affairs, there is by the university against in- that addresses these issues; it was hurt and no one was at- scrawled in shaving gel on the 'We are going through the currently no penalty in the stu- dividuals involved would focus may be a regulation and it may tacked, but it does point out a wall of a Stratford Hall lobby, process and we would hope to dent conduct code which applies solely on the vandalism aspect of not be." See Hate.page 9 be in place by fall," said David Rhodes, president of the School Just use your head! of Visual Arts Inc. "I think the suit is utterly 1 without merit," Rhodes added. The lawsuit filed Wednes- Common sense is the best crime prevention measure day in Chatham County Supe- rior Court seeks $3 million By Stacy Jordan In addition, Sharp stated that not having doors Staff Writer dollars in general damages and propped open to let strangers in, and being mind- $100 million dollars in puni- Many people on this campus have a false sense ful of unescorted or unknown individual can also Top five best things to do when tive damages from the New of security when it comes to residence hall life, keep incidents of assaults down. York school and Matthew T. accordingto GSU Health Educator Whitney Himes. During this fiscal year, which began on July 1, on campus late at night: Lowry. Until recently, entrance into many female halls 1992, residence halls have experienced 20 thefts Lowry resigned in Septem- was accomplished by opening the front door. How- and two burglaries, according to records cited by 1. If walking home alone, call the campus ber as dean of SCAD's School ever, males supposedly could not leave the main Sharp. Most thefts ranged from jewelry to money escort service which runs from 6p.m. to 2 a.m. of Building Arts, a position he floor or sleeping area without being escorted by a and electronics and bicycle tires. daily. had held three years.